Book recommendation

[davewitley]

Me:
> > Anyone read The Wind Singer by William Nicholson?

Catherine:
> Yes, I have, and I've tried to get other people on this list 
> interested in it before.

Oop! Sorry, I missed that.  I read it because Ruth got it out of the 
library for James.  He liked it too.

> I found the sequel, Slaves of the Mastery, 
> is extremely harrowing, and I certainly don't think it's really a 
> children's book.

Yes, I didn't realise it was the first of three until I checked the 
author's name on Amazon UK.  There are certainly some unexplained 
things in the first book (James said: they don't need explaining, 
they just are!).

> The books are a very visual read as well, which isn't surprising, 
> considering that William Nicholson is a screen writer - he wrote 
the 
> screenplays for, amongst other things, Shadowlands, and Gladiator.

I sense the Christian (or possibly CS Lewis) influence in the nature 
of the evil of that world - that everyone is held in subjection 
through meritocracy based on examinations. (Shadowlands is about 
Lewis.)

David